perf(gc) phase 2: memoise the shape scanner's per-address forwarding probe - #8899
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe shape-table GC scanner now memoises probes by keys-array address and carrier status. Descriptor-specific rekey and dead-descriptor bookkeeping remains unchanged. A changelog entry records benchmark results and an unfixed collection-growth issue. ChangesShape-table scan optimization
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The PR changes Error metadata ownership and serialization while optimizing GC shape scanning, but several code paths still retain Error or value pointers across allocations, getters, and recursive serialization. Moving garbage collection can then corrupt runtime state, and self-referential Error properties can cause unbounded recursion, so the change is not safe to merge until these correctness issues are fixed. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@changelog.d/8890-header-unification.md`:
- Around line 1-47: Rewrite the changelog entry as one concise release note
describing the shipped metadata and tracing changes for exotic cells, including
that Error properties are now stored and garbage-collected with their owning
objects. Remove development history, implementation diagnostics, internal
validation details, issue references, and test methodology; mention user impact
only if there is a direct user-visible effect.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/fs/errors.rs`:
- Around line 133-149: Update the error-property installation flow around the
owner pointer to create a RuntimeHandleScope at entry and keep the Error rooted
across all allocations. Reload the current Error address from its handle before
each set_error_user_prop call, and root each string created by put_str until its
property write completes, including optional path and dest properties.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/json/stringify.rs`:
- Around line 370-398: Update stringify_error_own_props to root the Error before
exotic_own_keys, then reload its current address from the root handle before
every exotic_get_own_property call and receiver bits_of_ptr use. Ensure
recursive serialization continues using the reloaded address so getter or
allocation-triggered GC movement cannot leave the loop using a stale ptr.
- Around line 395-397: Update the Error serialization helper to track nesting
depth and use STRINGIFY_STACK consistently with stringify_object_inner,
including detecting enumerable self-references and raising the JSON
circular-structure error instead of recursing indefinitely. Change the top-level
Error branch to enter this helper at depth 0 so recursive calls use
stringify_value_depth with incremented depth rather than repeatedly calling
stringify_value without tracking.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/node_submodules/diagnostics.rs`:
- Around line 616-620: Update the error diagnostic helpers around
set_error_user_prop and the related expando operations so Error pointers and
value are rooted across allocating calls. After js_string_from_bytes, reload the
Error from its handle and reacquire the expando bag before lookup, deletion, or
storage; ensure value is also rooted before allocation when applicable.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/alloc.rs`:
- Around line 1564-1573: In the Error property-copy loop, add a rooted source
handle alongside tgt_h, then reload src_raw from that handle and rebuild
receiver at the start of every iteration before calling exotic_get_own_property.
Ensure accessor execution and any moving collection cannot leave the loop using
stale raw source pointers.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs`:
- Around line 2007-2021: Update cell_expando_ensure so the RuntimeHandleScope
and rooted owner are created before the initial object_meta_ensure_for_cell
call, ensuring metadata materialization cannot move an unrooted owner. After
every allocating operation, including metadata creation and js_object_alloc,
reload user_ptr through the rooted handle before reading or updating the cell
metadata.
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| Gave every exotic cell type a metadata edge, and moved `Error`'s own properties | ||
| onto it — deleting a side table and all four of its GC hooks. | ||
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| Cell types declare their fields independently; there is no shared header prefix. | ||
| So *"does this cell own an `ObjectMeta`?"* had no single answer, and only an | ||
| `ObjectHeader` could be asked. That is why per-object state for the exotic types | ||
| accumulated in tables keyed by the owner's **address** — there was nowhere on | ||
| the cell to put it. Errors alone carried seven such tables plus four GC hooks. | ||
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| Every exotic cell now has a `meta` edge, reachable through one accessor | ||
| (`cell_meta_slot`): Object, Error, Map, Set, RegExp, Promise and Date. It | ||
| answers `None` for anything unmapped, so callers degrade to their existing | ||
| storage rather than mis-reading another layout as a pointer. | ||
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| Each edge is **traced**, not merely rewritten. Where a type's rewrite arm is | ||
| also its mark path the slot goes there; RegExp delegates to the layout visitor, | ||
| so its edge goes in `gc_child_slots` instead. #6812 is exactly the bug of | ||
| choosing wrong — an edge visited only on the rewrite path is invisible to | ||
| marking, and the record is swept out from under a live owner. | ||
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| `Date` needed more than a field: it was `pointer_free` with a `Leaf` (no-op) | ||
| descriptor, holding one raw `f64`. A cell with a pointer must be scanned, so it | ||
| moved to a new `MetaOnly` descriptor with `pointer_free = false`. | ||
| `validate_gc_type_info` caught the flag when an edit missed it. | ||
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| The arena reuses free-list memory **without zeroing**, so an uninitialised meta | ||
| edge would be a garbage pointer the collector follows. Every allocation path | ||
| initialises it explicitly; `Promise` routes through `Promise::new`, so the | ||
| constructor covers its several sites. | ||
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| `ObjectMeta` gains `expando`, a named-property bag for cells with no inline slot | ||
| layout. It is appended last because the struct's offsets are a contract with | ||
| codegen (`offset_of!` asserts at 32/48/56 — inserting mid-struct failed them). | ||
| `ERROR_USER_PROPS` is deleted along with all four of its GC hooks: | ||
| rekey-on-evacuation, finalize, dead-sweep and the root scanner. Error properties | ||
| are now an ordinary traced child edge that moves with its owner, dies with its | ||
| owner, and cannot be inherited by a later tenant of a recycled address. | ||
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| The tracing tests assert slot **enumeration** directly rather than survival | ||
| across a collection. A survival test is vacuous here: arena block reset is | ||
| all-or-nothing, so `gc::trace` force-marks every object in a block that still | ||
| holds one reachable object (#7975), which keeps an untraced record alive anyway. | ||
| Verified by sabotage — deleting the visit line left the survival version passing | ||
| and fails the enumeration version. | ||
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| No user-visible change on its own. This is the gate that lets the shape and | ||
| descriptor payloads move off address-keyed tables. |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Rewrite this as one release-note entry.
This fragment describes development slices, internal implementation details, and historical bugs. Describe the final shipped behavior and user impact instead.
Based on learnings: “describe the final shipped behavior as one coherent release-note entry.”
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Context: ...s in gc_child_slots instead. #6812 is exactly the bug of choosing wrong — an edge vis...
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In `@changelog.d/8890-header-unification.md` around lines 1 - 47, Rewrite the
changelog entry as one concise release note describing the shipped metadata and
tracing changes for exotic cells, including that Error properties are now stored
and garbage-collected with their owning objects. Remove development history,
implementation diagnostics, internal validation details, issue references, and
test methodology; mention user impact only if there is a direct user-visible
effect.
Source: Learnings
| let owner = err_ptr as usize; | ||
| let put_str = |key: &str, s: &str| { | ||
| let boxed = js_string_from_bytes(s.as_ptr(), s.len() as u32); | ||
| set_error_user_prop(owner, key, crate::value::js_nanbox_string(boxed as i64)); | ||
| }; | ||
| // Insertion order is observable — `Object.keys`, `for…in`, `{...err}` and | ||
| // `JSON.stringify` all report it — so install these in the same order | ||
| // node's `uvException` does: errno, code, syscall, path, dest. | ||
| // `errno` is numeric in node (-2 for ENOENT), not a string. | ||
| set_error_user_prop(owner, "errno", errno as f64); | ||
| put_str("code", code); | ||
| put_str("syscall", syscall); | ||
| if let Some(p) = path { | ||
| put_str("path", p); | ||
| } | ||
| if let Some(d) = dest { | ||
| put_str("dest", d); |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Root the Error across all property writes.
owner is a raw address that remains live across allocations in set_error_user_prop and put_str. A moving collection can relocate err_ptr after errno is installed. The later code, syscall, path, or dest write then dereferences the retired address.
Create a RuntimeHandleScope at entry. Reload the Error address from its handle before every call. Root each freshly allocated string value until its property store completes.
Based on learnings: raw Rust pointer locals are not GC roots across allocating or user-code-invoking operations.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/fs/errors.rs` around lines 133 - 149, Update the
error-property installation flow around the owner pointer to create a
RuntimeHandleScope at entry and keep the Error rooted across all allocations.
Reload the current Error address from its handle before each set_error_user_prop
call, and root each string created by put_str until its property write
completes, including optional path and dest properties.
Source: Learnings
| unsafe fn stringify_error_own_props(ptr: *const u8, buf: &mut String, depth: Option<u32>) { | ||
| let ptr = ptr as usize; | ||
| use crate::object::exotic_expando::{exotic_get_own_property, exotic_own_keys, ExoticKind}; | ||
| let keys = exotic_own_keys(ExoticKind::Error, ptr, true); | ||
| buf.push('{'); | ||
| let mut first = true; | ||
| for key in keys { | ||
| let Some(v) = exotic_get_own_property( | ||
| ptr, | ||
| ExoticKind::Error, | ||
| &key, | ||
| f64::from_bits(bits_of_ptr(ptr)), | ||
| ) else { | ||
| continue; | ||
| }; | ||
| // `undefined` own properties are omitted from objects, per JSON.stringify. | ||
| if v.to_bits() == crate::value::TAG_UNDEFINED { | ||
| continue; | ||
| } | ||
| if !first { | ||
| buf.push(','); | ||
| } | ||
| first = false; | ||
| write_escaped_string(buf, &key); | ||
| buf.push(':'); | ||
| match depth { | ||
| Some(d) => stringify_value_depth(v, 0, buf, d + 1), | ||
| None => stringify_value(v, 0, buf), | ||
| } |
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Root the Error across getters and recursive serialization.
exotic_get_own_property can invoke an accessor getter. That getter, or recursive value serialization, can allocate and evacuate the Error. Later loop iterations still use the stale ptr captured on Line 371.
Root the Error before key enumeration. Reload its current address from the handle before each property lookup and receiver NaN-boxing.
Based on learnings: raw Rust pointer locals are not reliable GC pins across allocating or user-code-invoking operations.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/json/stringify.rs` around lines 370 - 398, Update
stringify_error_own_props to root the Error before exotic_own_keys, then reload
its current address from the root handle before every exotic_get_own_property
call and receiver bits_of_ptr use. Ensure recursive serialization continues
using the reloaded address so getter or allocation-triggered GC movement cannot
leave the loop using a stale ptr.
Source: Learnings
| match depth { | ||
| Some(d) => stringify_value_depth(v, 0, buf, d + 1), | ||
| None => stringify_value(v, 0, buf), |
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Add Error cycle and depth tracking.
An enumerable self-reference such as err.self = err recurses through this helper without a STRINGIFY_STACK entry or nesting-depth check. The top-level path also passes None, so it repeatedly calls stringify_value without increasing depth. This causes unbounded native recursion instead of a JSON circular-structure error.
Use the same depth and stack discipline as stringify_object_inner, and enter this helper with depth 0 from the top-level Error branch.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/json/stringify.rs` around lines 395 - 397, Update
the Error serialization helper to track nesting depth and use STRINGIFY_STACK
consistently with stringify_object_inner, including detecting enumerable
self-references and raising the JSON circular-structure error instead of
recursing indefinitely. Change the top-level Error branch to enter this helper
at depth 0 so recursive calls use stringify_value_depth with incremented depth
rather than repeatedly calling stringify_value without tracking.
| let Some(bag) = crate::object::cell_expando_ensure(error_ptr) else { | ||
| return; | ||
| }; | ||
| let key_ptr = js_string_from_bytes(key.as_ptr(), key.len() as u32); | ||
| crate::object::js_object_set_field_by_name(bag, key_ptr, value); |
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Reload Error expando pointers after allocating key strings.
These helpers retain bag across js_string_from_bytes. A moving collection can relocate the Error and its expando object before the subsequent lookup, delete, or write. set_error_user_prop also retains value across allocation, so a heap value can become stale before storage.
Root the Error and value where applicable. After allocating key_ptr, reload the Error from its handle and reacquire its expando bag before accessing it.
Based on learnings: raw Rust pointer locals are not GC roots across allocating or user-code-invoking operations.
Also applies to: 632-645, 658-669
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/node_submodules/diagnostics.rs` around lines 616 -
620, Update the error diagnostic helpers around set_error_user_prop and the
related expando operations so Error pointers and value are rooted across
allocating calls. After js_string_from_bytes, reload the Error from its handle
and reacquire the expando bag before lookup, deletion, or storage; ensure value
is also rooted before allocation when applicable.
Source: Learnings
| let scope = crate::gc::RuntimeHandleScope::new(); | ||
| let tgt_h = scope.root_raw_mut_ptr(target); | ||
| let receiver = crate::value::js_nanbox_pointer(src_raw as i64); | ||
| for name in exotic_own_keys(ExoticKind::Error, src_raw, true) { | ||
| let Some(value) = exotic_get_own_property(src_raw, ExoticKind::Error, &name, receiver) | ||
| else { | ||
| continue; | ||
| }; | ||
| let value_h = scope.root_nanbox_f64(value); | ||
| let key_ptr = crate::string::js_string_from_bytes(name.as_ptr(), name.len() as u32); |
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Root the Error source during accessor enumeration.
exotic_get_own_property can invoke an Error accessor getter. That getter can trigger a moving collection. src_raw and receiver then retain the old Error address, and the next loop iteration can access from-space.
Create a source handle beside tgt_h. Reload src_raw and rebuild receiver from that handle for each iteration.
Based on learnings: raw Rust pointer locals are not GC roots across allocating or user-code-invoking operations.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/alloc.rs` around lines 1564 - 1573, In the
Error property-copy loop, add a rooted source handle alongside tgt_h, then
reload src_raw from that handle and rebuild receiver at the start of every
iteration before calling exotic_get_own_property. Ensure accessor execution and
any moving collection cannot leave the loop using stale raw source pointers.
Source: Learnings
| pub(crate) unsafe fn cell_expando_ensure(user_ptr: usize) -> Option<*mut ObjectHeader> { | ||
| let meta = object_meta_ensure_for_cell(user_ptr)?; | ||
| if (*meta).expando != 0 { | ||
| return Some( | ||
| crate::value::JSValue::from_bits((*meta).expando).as_pointer::<ObjectHeader>() | ||
| as *mut ObjectHeader, | ||
| ); | ||
| } | ||
| // `js_object_alloc` allocates and can move the owner, so re-resolve the | ||
| // meta record from the rooted address afterwards. | ||
| let scope = crate::gc::RuntimeHandleScope::new(); | ||
| let owner = scope.root_raw_mut_ptr(user_ptr as *mut u8); | ||
| let bag = js_object_alloc(0, 0); | ||
| let user_ptr = owner.get_raw_mut_ptr::<u8>() as usize; | ||
| let meta = object_meta_ensure_for_cell(user_ptr)?; |
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Root the owner before materializing metadata.
object_meta_ensure_for_cell(user_ptr) can allocate and evacuate the owner. Line 2018 then roots the old user_ptr, not the moved cell. A first expando write that triggers a moving collection can read or update stale from-space data.
Create the handle scope before Line 2008. Reload user_ptr from that handle after each allocation.
Based on learnings: raw Rust pointer locals are not reliable GC pins across allocating operations.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs` around lines 2007 - 2021, Update
cell_expando_ensure so the RuntimeHandleScope and rooted owner are created
before the initial object_meta_ensure_for_cell call, ensuring metadata
materialization cannot move an unrooted owner. After every allocating operation,
including metadata creation and js_object_alloc, reload user_ptr through the
rooted handle before reading or updating the cell metadata.
Source: Learnings
scan_shape_table_rekey_mut is 53.3% of all root-scanner time on claude -p. Measured split: the rewrite phase is 89.6% of it, and the cost is cache misses, not computation — each descriptor's probe runs classify_heap_space_in_range and then reads a GC header at a scattered address. Shapes share keys arrays 2.5:1 (stable across a run), so the loop paid that ~2.5x per distinct address. Probing is now memoised per pass. Sound by construction: same addresses, once each, and forwarding is a pure function of the address within a pass. The carrier flag is part of the memo key — carriers take visit_usize_slot, which MARKS in mark modes, so a non-carrier's cached answer must not satisfy a carrier's marking duty. Per-descriptor bookkeeping moved to a shared helper so the memoised and probing paths cannot drift; only the probe is deduplicated. Measured: 3074.7ms -> 2685.9ms of scanner time (-12.6%). Short of the 2.5x the ratio suggests, because a 300k-entry map lookup costs nearly as much as the probe it replaces. The memo is a reused thread-local scratch map, not a per-scan allocation. Larger finding, deliberately NOT fixed here: the shape table grows unboundedly between full collections — 786,205 descriptors on a workload holding <400 live objects, with scanner cost tracking it 3.6ms -> 490ms per call. The copied-minor prune is nursery-only, so promoted-then-dead keys arrays survive to the next full GC while every minor walks the whole table. The better fix is to not walk it all on a minor, which needs the collector to report whether old-page defrag runs that cycle; without that signal, skipping tenured entries is unsound. Suite 2751 passed.
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Rebased onto current The branch carried four commits that had already landed via #8891's squash ( One thing fixed while landing it. The doc comment and On soundness. The memo is Validation — runtime 2758/0 ( One observation, not a blocker. The map is retained per thread to avoid per-GC churn, which is the right call for allocation churn, but at the ~300k entries described it retains roughly 10–15 MB per thread permanently (32-byte entries plus hashbrown control bytes at a 7/8 load factor). Given the standing "minimise RSS while keeping best compute" constraint, that trade is worth an explicit number in the fragment, and a capacity ceiling — shrink when it exceeds some bound — would keep the churn win without the permanent floor. Small next to the 786k-descriptor table this is scanning, so not worth blocking on. The +5.4%/−12.6% figures are not re-measured here; the PR is candid that it misses its own acceptance bar and that the real term is the shape table growing without bound between full collections. That larger finding is the valuable part. |
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Sped up the shape-table GC scanner by probing each distinct keys-array address
once per pass instead of once per shape.
scan_shape_table_rekey_mutis the single most expensive root scanner onclaude -p— 178.9 ms, 53.3% of all scanner time. Measuring it on ashape-heavy workload showed where that goes:
The cost is not computation. Each descriptor's probe runs
classify_heap_space_in_rangeand then reads the GC header at a scatteredaddress — two likely cache misses, per descriptor, per collection.
Shapes share keys arrays at a measured, stable 2.5:1, so the loop paid that
~2.5 times per distinct address. The probe is now memoised per pass. This is
sound by construction: the same addresses are visited, just once each, and
forwarding is a pure function of the address within one pass. The carrier flag
is part of the memo key — carriers take
visit_usize_slot, which MARKS in markmodes, so a non-carrier's cached answer must not be allowed to satisfy a
carrier's marking duty. The per-descriptor bookkeeping is lifted into a shared
helper so the memoised and probing paths cannot drift apart; only the probe is
deduplicated.
Measured on the same workload: 3074.7 ms → 2685.9 ms of scanner time, −12.6%.
That is well short of the 2.5× the sharing ratio suggests, because a lookup in a
300k-entry map costs nearly as much as the probe it replaces — one cache miss
traded for another. The memo is therefore a reused thread-local scratch map
rather than a fresh allocation per scan; at this size, allocating one every
collection is exactly the churn the memory-parity work is trying to remove.
The larger finding, not fixed here
The shape table grows without bound between full collections. On a workload
that never holds more than 400 live objects it reached 786,205 descriptors,
and scanner cost tracks it directly: 3.6 ms → 490 ms per call.
The mechanism:
prune_dead_owner_side_tables_copied_minoris nursery-only byconstruction, so a keys array that is promoted and then dies is not reclaimed
until a full collection — while the scanner walks the whole table on every
minor. That, not the per-probe cost, is why this scanner dominates.
Fixing it means either pruning promoted-then-dead shapes sooner, or not walking
the whole table on a minor. The second is the better fix and needs the collector
to say whether old-page defrag runs in the cycle: without that, skipping
tenured entries is unsound, because a defragging moving collection can move
them, and a stale keys pointer is silent heap corruption. Deliberately left for
its own change rather than guessed at here.
Scope, stated plainly
The phase-2 plan's acceptance bar was that
scan_shape_table_rekey_mutandscan_descriptor_roots_mutdisappear from the scanner profile, not merely get cheaper. This does not meet that bar. It makes the dominant scanner 12.6% cheaper and — more usefully — establishes with measurements why it dominates at all.What the measurement changed about the plan:
Two candidate fixes for the table size were considered and not taken:
Reproducer for anyone continuing this:
/tmp/parity/arch/shapes2.jsdrives the table to ~780k descriptors in about a minute, andPERRY_GC_DIAG=1shows the per-scanner cost tracking it.Suite: 2751 passed, 0 failed. Stacks on #8891 (phase 1).
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